Ghost Trick," featuring the best dog in video games, receives recognition in Korea for its PC version.

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Ghost Trick," featuring the best dog in video games, receives recognition in Korea for its PC version.

Once again, it seems that the Korean Game Evaluation and Management Board has come forward with hints about upcoming games. They were the first to get information about the "Mass Effect" remaster and the "Sunset Overdrive" PC port, and a month before the "Silent Hill" series was publicly revived, the committee classified the "Silent Hill" game. And now the PC version of "Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective," a puzzle adventure developed by Capcom for the Nintendo DS and released overseas in 2011, has been rated in Korea.

According to Gematsu, the publisher of "Ghost Trick" is Gamepia, a company that markets Capcom games in Korea, including the "Resident Evil 4" remake. It seems certain that a PC remaster of "Ghost Trick" will be released in the near future.

Ghost Trick is a 2D adventure game in which a funky-haired ghost possesses objects and manipulates them poltergeist-style, setting off complex Rube Goldberg-like chain reactions to solve puzzles. It can also jump into a corpse and travel back in time to the moment before the corpse's death and tamper with events to save the corpse's life.

The game has a bit of a cult following, thanks to its wonderfully fluid and distinctive animation and a brilliant dog named Missile. Missile is a good buddy, a Pomeranian. Shu Takumi, the writer and director of "Ghost Trick" and creator of the "Ace Attorney" series, modeled Missile after his own dog (he also sneaked him into the "Ace Attorney" game, but he is a Shiba Inu there). Takumi has said he would like to make a sequel or even a crossover between "Ghost Trick" and "Ace Attorney," but a remaster would be nice before that.

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